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During a three-day period in August 2013, inspector Jacqueline Davenport made stops at restaurants, hardware stores and private homes. Surveillance video puts her at a cellphone store and a gym, as well.

All the while, she reported on her time card that she was working, supposedly checking homes for lead contamination.

"There was a certain trust placed in these individuals," said Douglas County Health Director Dr. Adi Pour. "We have very professional staff, I have to tell you, and really they make their own days. They make their own work schedules and so on."

From 2010 to the end of her employment this year, Davenport was assigned to check on 82 Douglas County homes. KETV NewsWatch 7 has learned only eight of those homes were cleared of lead contamination.

During an internal investigation in July 2013, Davenport's letter of termination states, she failed to make her progress notes available to her supervisor or other staff and later noted she had stopped making the notes.

Davenport said they had been taken from her desk. But in the termination letter, health department supervisors tell her, "The sole plausible motivation/explanation for the loss or destruction of your progress notes was to cover-up your failure to properly and timely perform the duties and functions of your job."

"I did not lose or destroy any of my progress notes," Davenport told KETV NewsWatch 7. "It was documented they were taken from my desk at one point in time."

Davenport admitted to making non-work-related stops during the day, but she insists she lost her job because of inadequate training by the health department.

"I do believe that it was my supervisor's responsibility to train me in all facets of my job, and that wasn't done in a good way," Davenport said.

The health inspectors are part of a line of defense assigned to protect children. When doctors detect an elevated level of lead in a child's blood, a health department inspector is sent to the child's home to find the source of the hazard.

Catherine Mahern, with the Creighton Legal Clinic, was the first to discover follow-ups were not taking place.

Mahern requested a lead inspection for a client in the spring and found out the home had first been identified as having hazardous lead levels six years ago.

"The house was inspected, and we learned at that time that that had been inspected in 2007 and nothing had ever been done," Mahern said. "And so now more people have moved into this property that have risk of lead poisoning."

Amanda Huffman's youngest daughter, Lily, first tested positive for high lead levels in 2011.

"We moved from there just because I definitely wanted to take care of the situation make sure the levels went back down," Huffman said.

Little did she know that the rental home in south Omaha she's currently living in also had high lead levels.

According to health department records, in January 2012, the now-fired inspector checked the house. But Huffman said she never heard back.

"No letters, no phone calls, nothing," Huffman said.

Now, the Douglas County Health Department finds itself re-inspecting homes once assigned to Davenport. But Pour won't say exactly how many homes need to be rechecked.

"We have a plan in place. I feel very comfortable. We have already prioritized properties," Pour said.

Pour wouldn't discuss any other details about Davenport's case.

As for Davenport herself, she said she stopped at the phone store because she needed her phone fixed. She went to the gym because of stress at work.

And her trips to the restaurant and hardware stores were to meet with clients and help them find new, safer paints for their homes.

Davenport said after 14 years as a Douglas County employee, firing her is unfair.

"To let me go with no reason and no good cause right now is a terrible thing to do to a person," she said.

This week, another lead inspector resigned from the Douglas County Health Department.

In her letter of resignation, she expressed frustration with how the department was managed. Pour declined to comment on that personnel matter, as well.

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